Every CleanPowerDaily analysis piece — 34 articles of data-driven reporting on the projects, policies, and local fights shaping the US clean energy transition. Weekly opposition roundups feed the Opposition Tracker.
Virginia councils block two solar projects, California residents force data center withdrawal, and Missouri enacts a six-month ban in a week spanning 8 states.
Nearly a third of Indiana counties restrict data centers, NJ utility activates battery system without local approval, and solar moratoriums advance in Louisiana and Illinois.
215-161 vote triggers Alabama solar moratorium, 79 Michigan townships petition Supreme Court, and Massachusetts approves two battery projects over local objections.
Ohio electricity prices rose faster than almost anywhere in America. The demand shock came from data centers — but Republicans in Congress, the statehouse, and county courthouses spent a decade blocking the supply that could have answered it. The receipts, vote by vote.
Ohio rejects its eighth solar farm since 2020. Data center moratoriums spread in Michigan and Minnesota. Battery storage fights erupt in three states this week.
A 2,360-acre solar farm blocked in NC, 150MW wind farm sparks tense forums in WI, and battery storage resistance spreads across western Washington this week.
New York's legislature passed the first statewide data center moratorium. Now Gov. Hochul has 10 days to sign or veto — and her own party is split.
Wind and solar must begin construction by July 4, 2026 to keep the 45Y/48E tax credits. A June 6 court ruling restored the 5% safe harbor — for now.
On June 10, the DOJ quietly dropped its own appeal of Trump's offshore wind permitting ban — the third legal defeat in six months. So the administration retreated to the one justification courts won't second-guess: national security.
A 15.75-MW solar farm denied in Georgia, two data center moratoriums passed in Missouri and Michigan, and angry residents confront officials in Arizona this week.
A wave of solar farm rejections swept across Michigan this week, with multiple townships voting down utility-scale projects on farmland, while communities...
From rural New York to the fast-growing suburbs of Charlotte, North Carolina, communities across the country spent the week pushing back against energy and...
Solar PAC Invest in Tomorrow spent $1.15M against Rep. Chip Roy, the IRA's loudest GOP opponent. He lost. The clean energy industry just got its playbook.
New York state now leads the nation with 98 municipalities that have enacted moratoriums on battery energy storage systems, accounting for nearly two-third...
Wyoming's first community-scale solar farm is dead, killed by public outcry in Lincoln County before it could ever break ground. The project's demise was j...
From the bayous of Louisiana to the farmland of southern Michigan, communities pushed back hard against energy and infrastructure projects this week, with...
Data center developers are running into the same community opposition wall that stalled utility-scale solar between 2018 and 2022. The arguments, the tactics, and the developer mistakes are nearly identical. Solar's playbook is sitting there.
The Iowa Supreme Court handed wind energy opponents a landmark victory this week, upholding a county's moratorium on new turbine construction in a ruling t...
Agrivoltaics is one of the few forms of solar rural America will accept. The OBBBA's July 2026 construction deadline is making it structurally harder to build than the standard ground-mount projects it was supposed to replace.
Ohio cemented its reputation as the hardest state in the nation to build renewable energy this week, as the state Power Siting Board denied yet another sol...
A wave of organized resistance to data centers swept from the Carolinas to Colorado this week, with residents packing hearing rooms, filing formal protests...
A judge in Illinois ordered a county board to revisit solar permits it had rejected, an Alabama state moratorium on solar farms collapsed on a procedural t...
In what may be the clearest signal yet that data center opposition is becoming a nationwide movement, communities in Colorado, Ohio, and Pennsylvania this...
After decades of being outspent 27-to-1 by fossil fuels, the clean energy industry is hiring MAGA influencers, funding GOP primary attack ads, and retaining Trump-connected lobbyists. What changed?
Ohio's Power Siting Board delivered another blow to the state's solar industry this week, rejecting a 94-megawatt project in Morrow County — the seventh la...
Data centers are devouring clean energy through PPAs while communities block both data centers and the renewable projects needed to power them — creating a vicious cycle that threatens grid reliability and climate goals.
Alabama moved closer this week to becoming the latest state to pump the brakes on solar development, as a House committee advanced bills that would impose...
An Alabama state senator filed legislation this week that could halt all solar farm construction across the state for a full year — a dramatic escalation b...
A state-by-state breakdown of the record 86 GW of solar, wind, and battery storage capacity planned for the U.S. grid in 2026, based on EIA data.
The Ohio Power Siting Board was designed to evaluate energy projects on their merits. Instead, it has become a rubber stamp for political opposition — killing hundreds of millions in investment based on fabricated comments and single township votes.
With 48 GW of data centers pursuing private power, behind-the-meter clean energy is reshaping the industry.
Agrivoltaics—the practice of combining solar panels with farming—is rapidly moving from pilot projects to mainstream adoption. Here's where the industry stands and what's next.